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May 13, 1985 (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by alphanerd4@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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1985 MOVE Bombing

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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 34 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I remember this craziness.

I remember that craziness because as a young adult, I was working nearby and saw the smoke clouds.

...and of course, it was all considered ok.

I'm unaware of anyone at all those days who considered it 'all okay.' On the contrary, it put a kind of national spotlight on Philly police' brutality going back to the Rizzo days, and doubtless contributed to Rizzo never being mayor again. And I think even amongst the folks who believed the bombing was justified, a large segment had to admit that it obviously went very, very wrong.

All that said-- yeah, as a nation I'm not sure we learned a damn thing out of all that. The police certainly didn't appear to.

[–] fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

In the SE USA where I was about to graduate from high school, in the local news it was presented as "inner city terrorists handled with appropriated force"

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm not surprised there was a deal of confusion about it. It was a complicated affair that doesn't have much analogue in contemporary history AFAIK.

[–] fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

It wasn't until I went to university in the fall of that same year in a large metropolitan city with a diverse collection of dazzling urbanites that I was exposed to other points of view.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

a large segment had to admit that it obviously went very, very wrong.

I’m just imagining the conversation it took for such a chuckle fucker to knock off that racket. Like ok imagine it’s your baby in the building. walking a person through each scenario as a painful exercise.